12. XI. 1921

Comrade Gorbunov!

I ask you to read the enclosure and direct it to comrade Alsky for his familiarization and that of the members of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Finance,

and then to comrade Kamenev, chairman of the commission, which will probably need to address this question 28.

I have known Chebotarev since the 1880s from the matter concerning my older brother, Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov, who was hanged in 1887. Chebotarev is undoubtedly an honest man. Politically, during the epoch of the first revolution and afterwards, he was a Cadet, but not an active one. I think that his conscientiousness can and should be relied upon. Now, it seems, he is close politically to "Smena Vekh" 29.

Lenin

First published in 1933

in Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed from the manuscript